Hailuo AI
MiniMax text-to-video model with strong motion and cinematic camera control
Best for
Best for solo creators and indie filmmakers who need cinematic short clips from text prompts without enterprise budgets
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $9.99/mo
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/21/2026
What we love
- ✓Excellent motion physics for the price
- ✓Strong free tier for experimentation
- ✓Camera-direction prompting is rare at this tier
Where it falls short
- −Short maximum clip length
- −Queue waits during peak hours
- −No native editing timeline
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 7, 20263 tiers
Free
monthly
- ✓Daily credits
- ✓Standard queue
- ✓Watermarked exports
Standard
monthly
- ✓1000 fast credits
- ✓Priority queue
- ✓No watermark
- ✓Commercial use
Unlimited
monthly
- ✓Unlimited relaxed generations
- ✓Higher concurrency
- ✓API credits
Why we picked it
Hailuo punches above its weight on motion realism — clips often look more grounded than Runway's at a fraction of the price. Queue times on the free tier are the real cost.
Overview
Hailuo AI is MiniMax's text-to-video generator known for fluid motion, realistic physics, and dynamic camera moves out of a single prompt. The free tier gave it a viral moment in late 2024, and paid plans now target creators who need higher resolution and faster queues. It competes with Kling, Runway, and Sora on the cinematic end of the AI video market.
Key features
- ●Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ●Cinematic camera control prompts (pan, zoom, dolly)
- ●Up to 6-second 1080p clips
- ●Director-mode templates
- ●Subject reference for character consistency
- ●Multi-language prompt support
- ●Web app plus API access
Best use cases
Social-ad b-roll
Generate short cinematic clips for paid social and product launches without a film crew.
Concept pitches
Spin up visual proofs of concept for storyboards and creative pitches in minutes.
Integrations
Similar tools
See all video tools →One AI Stack pick every week.
The tool we’d pay for this week, why we’d pay for it, and what we’d skip. No promo spam.